President Donald Trump on Friday said he would impose a 100% tariff on all products from China in response to curbs Beijing announced this week on rare-earth minerals, a rapid escalation of tensions between the world’s largest economies.

On Truth Social, Trump wrote that the tariffs would take effect Nov. 1 and be imposed “over and above” other tariffs on Chinese exports, which are already 30% and in some cases much higher. The United States would also put export controls on critical software, he said.

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In an earlier post Friday, the president threatened to retaliate and cancel a planned meeting with China’s leader, Xi Jinping.

Trump called the curbs that China put out this week on its exports of rare-earth minerals “sinister and hostile” and said they would “make

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